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+Phabricator is an open source collection of web applications which help
+software companies build better software.
+
+Phabricator includes applications for:
+
+  - reviewing and auditing source code;
+  - hosting and browsing repositories;
+  - assembling a party to venture forth;
+  - tracking bugs;
+  - hiding stuff from coworkers; and
+  - also some other things.
+
+You can learn more about the project (and find links to documentation and
+resources) [[http://phabricator.org/ | here]].
+
+Phabricator is developed and maintained by [[http://phacility.com/ |
+Phacility]]. The first version of Phabricator was originally built at Facebook.
+
+= LICENSE =
+Phabricator is released under the Apache 2.0 license except as otherwise noted.